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Gregory Bateson's famous but somewhat mystical phrase raises as many questions as it attempts to address. In essence it is an appeal for holism - particularly the kind of holism that cybernetics specialises in: the reduction of the world to the interactions of recursive processes. In this sense, 'pattern' is an allusion to 'abstraction' - the description of a mechanism. Bateson himself created many...

When we see a pattern, what we really see is redundancy.Ais not a pattern. butAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAis.all those As are not that dissimilar from the Fs here...The one A (or the one F) can summarise the pattern. But if we sayA x 15that doesn't have the same patterning as AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAbut...A x 15, A x 14, A x 13, A x 12...does!(but at a different level)Is the difference between abstraction and experience...

What is the relationship between the 'aboutness' of something - the topic - and the way a topic is engaged with, or the way it is taught?MOOCs are an opportunity to study this. Since they encompass the range of the curriculum, and since their operation is largely transparent, some easy comparisons can be made. Whether MOOCs are any good or not (in general) is perhaps beside the point. Indeed, delivering...

Shannon's information theory as presented in his and Warren Weaver's "Mathematical Theory of Communication" still stands as one of the great intellectual monuments of the 20th century. Indeed, when we consider that the technologies of the internet rely fundamentally on his re-application of Boltzman's statistical thermodynamics, his social impact is of Einsteinian proportions.  When things become...

Is a theory of information futile? There's something of a Zeno's paradox about it all: we can pursue Shannon, or Deacon, or Floridi, or whoever else braves this territory. But there's always an unexplored aspect. Is it the physics, or the biology, or the sociology, or the pedagogy? Exploring information is rather like exploring education - it is torn apart by the various disciplines that have a stake...

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